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Grammys: Even without a nom, Swift wins big
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Grammys Top Noms: Wayne, West, Jonas, Jay-Z & More!
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Playing with Fire opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)
The death of a man marks the beginning of a friendship in this drama. When Mark dies, his best friend, Jeff (Adam Neal Smith), writes to break the news to Mark’s Italian friend, Andrea (co-screenwriter Alessandro Calza). Soon their connection causes the men to become friends, first over email and then in person. Though they come from vastly different backgrounds, their common bond brings them closer and closer. Director/co-writer Yen Tan (HAPPY BIRTHDAY) loosely based the film on his friendship with Calza.
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Ciao opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)
Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as an aging artist in this independent drama based on the experiences of writer/director George Gallo. Trevor Morgan stars as a young man who dreams of becoming a painter, so he asks a famously reclusive artist to help him reach his goal. LOCAL COLOR features a strong cast, including Samantha Mathis, Ray Liotta, Ron Perlman, and Charles Durning.
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Local Color opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)
It’s hard to imagine a musical landscape without the talents of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Etta James, whose success in the 1950s and ’60s still influences artists today. These music legends were all nurtured by Leonard Chess, one of the brothers behind Chess Records. In this historical, music-driven film about the label, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonc
The acclaimed play makes the transition from stage to screen with Ron Howard in the director’s chair. Frank Langella and Michael Sheen revisit their roles as the title characters in this drama that pits the impeached president against British TV host David Frost.
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Frost/Nixon opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)
Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He’s struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have gotten less and less discrete. As if Barkley’s world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel prize money. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge.
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Nobel Son opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss, Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the “Punisher Task Force” hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.
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Punisher: War Zone opens December 5th, 2008 (wide)
This feature-length vignette-style comedy boasts a smorgasbord of young comedic talent, including Michael Cera (SUPERBAD, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT), Ryan Pinkston (PUNK’D, SOUL PLANE), Frankie Muniz (MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE), and Jamie Kennedy (KICKIN’ IT OLD SKOOL). In the tradition of KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE, the film is comprised of a series of sketches, most of which revolve around teenagers and sex. Matthew Lillard and Andy Milonakis also make appearances in this ribald offering from the team behind THE COMEBACKS and numerous MTV Movie Award parody sketches. Andy Samberg and Will Forte are among the numerous SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE writers to have contributed EXTREME MOVIE’s uproarious script.
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Extreme Movie opens December 5th, 2008 (wide)
In this Australian film from the producer of STRICTLY BALLROOM, Thomas (Rhys Wakefield, HOME AND AWAY) has a lot to contend with. Not only has the teenager just moved to a new school, but he also has to take care of his older brother Charlie (Luke Ford, THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR), who is autistic. As Thomas struggles in his relationship with Charlie, he also tries to win the heart of his new girlfriend (Gemma Ward, THE STRANGERS). THE BLACK BALLOON also stars Toni Collette (LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) as Thomas and Charlie’s pregnant mother.
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Black Balloon opens December 5th, 2008 Ilimited)
This ensemble indie comedy stars MUTUAL APPRECIATION’s Justin Rice and BOYS DON’T CRY’s Brendan Sexton III as two competitive friends, living in the East Village and trying to find artistic success; more time is spent, however, arguing and contending with an array of former lovers and lovers-to-be in this quirky diamond-in-the-rough. Laura Breckenridge (SOUTHERN BELLES) also stars.
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Let Them Chirp Awhile opens December 5th, 2008 (limited)
In TIMECRIMES, a lazy afternoon spent in a lawn chair turns exciting when a man glimpses a naked woman through his binoculars. But when he goes in search of the beauty, he instead runs into a strange man whose face is wrapped in a bandage, and this encounter brings him into contact with a machine that can transport him through time. This Spanish sci-fi thriller drew raves in its festival run, and the inevitable English-language remake is in the works.
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Timecrimes opens December 12th, 2008 (limited)
In ‘Cadillac Records,’ he plays the blues legend. Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles and Gabrielle Union also star.
“If Elvis Presley was the king of rock ‘n’ roll, then Muddy Waters was the god,” declares Jeffrey Wright, and he’s got a case.
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Jeffrey Wright in a Muddy Waters groove
He taps his inner David Frost to costar in the tale of the 1977 interviews.
Michael Sheen, who played talk show host David Frost both on stage and now in the upcoming screen version of “Frost/Nixon,” knows that the transition can be scary. ¶ “The great joy and fear about working in front of a camera is that it picks up everything,” said Sheen. He rejoined his stage costar Frank Langella for director Ron Howard’s adaptation of Peter Morgan’s acclaimed play about the 1977 interviews that revived Frost’s career and humanized a disgraced Nixon. The film opens Friday. ¶ So when Frost’s cheerily sly grin dissipates on screen or a glimmer of despair flashes across his eyes as he bears the weight of turning his hard-won interview with Nixon into great TV, moviegoers see things that theater audiences in London and New York — outside the first few rows — didn’t get to see. ¶ “In theater, you have to find ways to get things across,” said the curly haired, Welsh-born actor. “On film, Frost became more internal. Things could be more fleeting, and more ambiguous. What comes through a lot more is the insecurity and desperation, the desire to be liked and yet feeling that things are going badly.” ¶ The 39-year-old Sheen has already proved how good he is at dramatizing the private worries of a public figure with his portrayal of Tony Blair in the fact-based drama “The Queen,” also written by Morgan. The Blair/Frost twofer has established him as a chameleonic new star of sorts, although Sheen is quick to point out that an actor’s transformation inevitably functions as a mirror. ¶ “I think it was Oscar Wilde who said: Give a man a mask, and he’ll show you his true face,” Sheen said recently in an interview at a Beverly Hills hotel. “Of all these characters, I’m only playing myself. Because that’s all I’ve got. At some point I recognize myself in them, and that’s the starting point. I build everything from there.”
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Michael Sheen has a talk with himself in ‘Frost/Nixon’
Video: Ann Powers and Todd Martens give instant reactions to the Grammy noms.
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Grammys: Album, new artist, snubs and surprises
The aging show makes its pitch for larger audiences with an all-star, prime-time special announcing this year’s contenders.
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Grammys blow their own horn with nomination concert
New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne, defying the trend of an industry in retreat by selling 1 million copies of his third album, “Tha Carter III,” in
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Lil Wayne, Coldplay rake in Grammy nominations*
New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne, defying the trend of an industry in retreat by selling 1 million copies of his third album, “Tha Carter III,” in
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Lil Wayne, Coldplay rake in Grammy noms
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Jonas Brothers and Jay-Z Receive Grammy Nominations
Having seen the film earlier this week, I have good news and bad news.
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No Oscar glory for ‘The Reader’?
The radio station-sponsored music festival is typically a pretty gruesome beast, where joyless artists rip through that season’s
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The P&H field guide to the 2008 radio festival season
The radio station-sponsored music festival is typically a pretty gruesome beast, where joyless artists rip through that season’s
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The P&H field guide to the 2008 radio festival season
